Toyota has developed a basketball-playing robot that recently debuted its skills in a Tokyo-area gymnasium.
Cue 3 is 6’10” and, when challenged, was able to sink five 3-pointers on eight attempts — which the robot’s engineers say is actually worse than normal.
Cue 3, computes as a three-dimensional image where the basket is, using sensors on its torso, and adjusts motors inside its arm and knees to give the shot the right angle and propulsion for a swish.
The basketball player has been designed to identify a ball using sensors on its chest, then computes a 3D image of where the basket is. The machine “adjusts motors inside its arm and knees to give the shot the right angle and propulsion.”
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